"Meek's Cutoff," Kelly Reichardt's articulate new film, is technically a Western, though it is nothing like the ones people are accustomed to seeing. The film has little in common with the cowboy ...

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The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a ...

But someone already made the perfect Oregon Trail movie, and it's not Oregon Trail. It's Meek's Cutoff. Meek's Cutoff Captures The Dangerous Emptiness Of The Old West Kelly Reichardt's 2010 ...